Presentations from international and local speakers, plus a great selection of international mountain bike films that will make you wish that Spring would come sooner! With guest speakers Rebecca Rusch, Justa Jeskova and Steve Storey
Date/Time: Feb 11 2017, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
North Vancouver, Centennial Theatre | Event calendarCost: $19.00
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VIMFF is celebrating 20 years so this the biggest festival ever featuring 31 shows and hosting 32 inspiring speakers! See some of the most jaw-dropping mountain adventures and hear incredible stories from around the world at the 20th Annual Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival.
Rebecca Rusch is the Queen of Pain with a heart of gold. Join Rebecca as she shares what it takes to be a professional athlete for over three decades. The 7x World Champion has continually tested her own limits, and shattered the glass ceiling in whatever sport she tackles.
Justa Jeskova & Steve Storey: The Ups and Downs Of Bikepacking At 15’000 feet is the story of the highs and lows of 3 mountain bikers week long journey around the Ausangate mountain of Peru.
Films:
- The Trail To Kazbegi: Directed by Joey Schusler, USA, 2015, 15 minutes
What happens when four like-minded adventurers head into one of the world’s wildest mountain ranges with nothing but their mountain bikes
and enough food to survive for 10 days?
- Light Cycles: Directed by Mike Gamble, Canada, 2016, 3 minutes
LIGHT CYCLES began as a dream, developed into a problem and spawned into a burning desire to create something that had never been
done before. - "How can we create a Tron Light Bike effect, on a mountain bike?"
- Chasing Rainbows: Directed by Michael Sousa, Canada, 2017, 5 minutes, WORLD PREMIERE
Follow us all the way to Peru, up to 17,000 feet, on our journey to find the rainbow as we summit peak after peak of far out, mesmerizing
alpine terrain.
- SHIFT: Directed by Kelly Milner, Canada, 2016, 28 minutes
SHIFT is a half hour documentary about a group of First Nations youth who have spent the past 10 years converting traditional trails around
their hometown of Carcross, Yukon into a world-class mountain biking destination – and transforming their community and themselves along
the way.
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